A former regulatory affairs specialist for biomedical company Vitara has alleged in New Jersey state court that she was fired in retaliation for refusing to manipulate data in the company's bid to perform the first human trial of its technology aimed at helping premature newborns.
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Ex-Biomedical Worker Axed For Not Altering Data, Suit Says

By George Woolston

A former regulatory affairs specialist for biomedical company Vitara has alleged in New Jersey state court that she was fired in retaliation for refusing to manipulate data in the company's bid to perform the first human trial of its technology aimed at helping premature newborns.

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Gun Offender Barred From Recovery Court, NJ Panel Rules

By Parker Quinlan

A New Jersey appeals court ruled on Friday that a man can be denied access to a state program providing special probation terms to drug offenders because he had a pending gun charge that did not involve physical possession of the weapon.

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Ex-Reed Smith Atty Fights Pausing Bias Suit Amid Appeal

By Matt Perez

A former Reed Smith LLP attorney pushed back on the firm's bid to stay her gender discrimination suit against it while the attorney's appeal of the scope of the damages in the suit plays out.

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NJ Panel Urges Attys To Be 'Introspective' Before Retirement

By Jake Maher

A panel of attorneys and retired judges encouraged New Jersey lawyers to be "introspective" and plan ahead as they navigate leaving their identity as a lawyer behind in retirement.

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LITIGATION

Fed. Circ. Won't Rethink Corcept Patent Loss In Teva Case

By Adam Lidgett

Corcept Therapeutics Inc. lost its bid Friday to have the full Federal Circuit look at a panel's refusal to revive its suit accusing Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. of patent infringement over its production of a generic version of the drug Korlym.

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POLICY & REGULATION

House Duo Push Agencies To Tackle AI-Related Election Risks

By Allison Grande

A bipartisan pair of members of the U.S. House of Representatives is calling on several federal agencies to coordinate efforts to ensure technologies fueled by artificial intelligence aren't operating in a way that undermines voters' ability to access "accurate, neutral and reliable" information about the upcoming midterm elections.

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PEOPLE

DEALS

4 Firms Advise On $3.4B Apollo, Bayer Contraceptives Deal

By Al Barbarino

Apollo Global Management has agreed to pay €3 billion ($3.4 billion) for a minority stake in Bayer's long-acting reversible contraceptive business, according to a joint announcement Friday. 

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REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Housing Bill, Opportunity Zones, Florida

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the latest on the federal housing bill, the rollout of Opportunity Zones 2.0, and a look at Florida at the midyear.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Justices' Ruling Alters Playing Field For State Subpoena Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport will spark more federal court challenges to state subpoenas, but procedural defenses will block some merits decisions, so plaintiffs must carefully time and manage parallel federal and state proceedings, say attorneys at Troutman.

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Roundup

The Most Talked-About Supreme Court Decisions Of 2026

This term, 11 U.S. Supreme Court decisions quickly became hot topics among Law360's guest writers.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Over 2,600 Attys, Professionals Urge Blocking Blanche As AG

By Emma Cueto

More than 2,600 lawyers and legal professionals on Friday urged lawmakers to oppose the nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general, saying Blanche's dismissal of the idea that the U.S. Department of Justice should be independent from the White House and his record as interim attorney general make him unfit for the role.

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HHS' Ex-GC Committed Ethics Violations, Watchdog Says

By Craig Clough

A watchdog organization filed a complaint Thursday with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General seeking an investigation into former HHS general counsel Michael Stuart over alleged federal ethics violations, saying it appears he failed to divest from prohibited financial holdings and made prohibited investment purchases after taking office.

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Atty's 'Fabricated Quotes,' 'Reliance on AI' Panned By Judge

By Craig Clough

A New York magistrate judge struck a brief Friday filed by an attorney representing a client suing Roc Nation after finding that it included numerous fabrications that may have resulted from artificial intelligence hallucinations, noting that the attorney has been "repeatedly" sanctioned or warned by multiple courts for the same behavior. 

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11th Circ. Refers Atty For Discipline Over Suspected AI Entries

By Katherine Smith

The Eleventh Circuit on Friday referred an attorney for potential discipline over a brief he filed in a client's retaliation lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections, ruling that the attorney failed to explain how several defective quotes and citations ended up in the brief.

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Baker Donelson Wins $45K From Tenn. Firm Over AI Misuse

By Lynn LaRowe

Tennessee personal injury firm Reaves Law Firm PLLC must pay more than $45,000 in attorney fees to Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC over Reaves Law's misuse of artificial intelligence in a federal malpractice suit against Baker Donelson.

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Davis Wright Atty Hit With Sanctions After Winning Sanctions

By Jeff Overley

After defending six-figure sanctions of plaintiffs lawyers for "a reckless course of prolonging litigation," a Davis Wright Tremaine LLP attorney is facing his own six-figure sanctions, with a California magistrate judge finding he "unnecessarily burdened" opposing counsel despite warnings dating back years about "improper litigation tactics."

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Oura Health Swaps In Sidley For Quinn After Ex-CEO's DQ Bid

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge granted Oura Health's request to swap in Sidley Austin LLP for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP in breach-of-contract litigation by the fitness tracker company's former CEO after the ex-executive sought to disqualify Quinn Emanuel for purportedly having access to his confidential data.

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NY Nonprofits Want ICE Docs On Courthouse Arrest Policies

By Stewart Bishop

Nonprofit groups suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over courthouse arrest policies pressed a Manhattan federal judge to force the agency to produce documents and testimony concerning arrests it conducts outside immigration courts after the agency's revised policy concerning such arrests in Manhattan was put on hold.

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Brooklyn Legal Aid Provider's Union Sets Strike Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

The union for the Brooklyn Defender Services has voted to authorize a strike if it doesn't reach an agreement with managers by the morning of July 16.

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11th Circ. Upholds Airline's Win In COVID Discrimination Case

By Irene Spezzamonte

A group of workers for a commercial airline and a related entity failed to support their claims that the companies' COVID-19 pandemic-era policies discriminated against their religious beliefs, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday, while sharply criticizing their attorney for his misuse of artificial intelligence.

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UChicago Law Takes On AI With Phone And Laptop Ban

By Matt Perez

The University of Chicago Law School will prohibit the use of electronic devices such as laptops, tablets and phones in all first-year law school sections and courses as part of new policies dictating the use of artificial intelligence at the school.

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4 Takeaways From Probe Of Feb. 2025 Calif. Bar Exam Fiasco

By Emily Sawicki

Poor implementation of the February 2025 California Bar Exam resulted in millions of dollars in extra costs and negatively affected "a significant portion" of test-takers, according to a new report by the California State Auditor.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen lawyer Ian Rosenblatt launch legal action against music mogul Simon Cowell, Boohoo face a fresh investor claim after previously facing allegations that it feigned ignorance of labor abuses in its supply chain, and an ex-Tory MP and his chief of staff sued by their former employer. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week: The SEC chair said this year's corporate proxy season saw none of the "dire predictions" some had forecast, and in a recent survey, hundreds of law firm leaders said they're increasingly losing clients, citing problems in delivering their legal services.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP and Ludd & Ludd lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a San Diego jury ordered Hyatt to pay $15.5 million over the death of a guest who was left uncontacted for a day after failing to check out.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Barack Ferrazzano

Benesch

Blank Rome

Bramnick Grabas

Brownstein Hyatt

Bursor & Fisher

CM Law LLP

Carmagnola & Ritardi

Charles Russell Speechlys

Chasan Lamparello

Cleary Gottlieb

Cohen & Gresser

Cole Scott & Kissane

Colson Hicks

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Davis Woolfe

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dovel & Luner

Dynamis LLP

Emery Celli

Fox Williams

Freeths LLP

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Greene Broillet

HSF Kramer

Harris Solicitors

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Joseph Greenwald & Laake

Katsky Korins

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Knobbe Martens

Kopecky Schumacher

Kuit Steinart

Kutak Rock

Lankler Siffert

Latham & Watkins

Lentz & Gengaro

Leone Law

Linklaters LLP

Logan Vance

MSB Solicitors

Mayer Brown

McAndrew Vuotto

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

Memery Crystal

Munsch Hardt

NautaDutilh

Patterson Belknap

Paul Weiss

Phelps Dunbar

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

Quintairos Prieto

Reaves Law Firm PLLC

Reed Smith

Reichman Jorgensen

Reynolds Porter

Richards Layton

Ropes & Gray

Rosenblatt Solicitors

Rosing Pott

Sabatini Law Firm PA

Seyfarth Shaw

Sidley Austin

Smith Krivoshey

Snell & Wilmer

Squire Patton

Stephens Scown

Stephenson Harwood

Sterne Kessler

Stinson LLP

T. A. Blackburn Law PLLC

TLT LLP

Tacopina Seigel

Troutman

Veale Wasbrough

Venable LLP

Ward Hadaway

Wiley Rein

Williams Leininger

Winston Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

AbbVie Inc.

Affinius Capital

African Communities Together

Airbnb Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

Ankura Consulting Group LLC

Anthropic PBC

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Applied Medical Resources Corp.

AstraZeneca PLC

Atlas Air Inc.

AvalonBay Communities Inc.

Bayer AG

Big Lots Inc.

BigHand Ltd.

Boyer Co.

British American Tobacco PLC

Broadstone Net Lease LLC

Brooklyn Defender Services

CRA International Inc.

Cable News Network Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

Center for Family Representation Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisneros

Compass Lexecon LLC

Corcept Therapeutics Inc.

CoreCivic Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

Deutsche Bank AG

Douglas Elliman Realty LLC

Extra Space Storage Inc.

Genentech Inc.

Gerson Lehrman Group Inc.

Google LLC

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.

LVMH Moet Hennessy

Learning Resources Inc.

LifePoint Health Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Make the Road New York

Marriott International Inc.

MasTec Inc.

MasterCard Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Medtronic PLC

Monsanto Co.

New Jersey State Bar Association

New York Civil Liberties Union

North American Securities Administrators Association

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Peachtree Group

Pfizer Inc.

Prologis Inc.

ROC Nation LLC

Radisson Hotels International

RealPage Inc.

Red Bull GmbH

Reddit Inc.

Rithm Capital Corp.

Sandoz International GmbH

SentencingStats.com Inc.

Smith & Wesson Brands Inc.

SoftBank Group Corp.

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide Inc.

State Bar of California

StoneTurn Group LLP

T-Mobile US Inc.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The District of Columbia Bar

The Hain Celestial Group Inc.

The Kroger Co.

TikTok Inc.

Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.

Twitter Inc.

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

United Auto Workers

Verizon Communications Inc.

Visa Europe

Vitara Biomedical

Walker & Dunlop Inc.

Walmart Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

X Corp.

Yelp Inc.

YouTube Inc.

Zillow Group Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

City and County of San Francisco, California

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Election Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Department of Corrections

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

New York Attorney General's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court